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This question is trivial to me now. The idea behind it seems, to me, to stem from not knowing about how we got here, or what we're here to do. But all but 1 of these typical religious questions crumble when the universe itself is understood.
Take any action or decision or thought you had today. If you were aware enough, if you understood the events in your life enough, and the also knew the chemical effects that occur in your body enough, you could trace this action/decision/though back to its source in history. Your decision to play poker, to go to school, to eat cereal, its all based on your past history and genetics. When reading what Im saying now, you're response is already predetermined by everything that has made you who you are.
And when you look at it like that, and expand that to its logical conclusion, you reach an understanding that the entire universe is just one giant rube goldberg machine. That everyone is stuck in a formidable never ending chain of dominos falling down one by one, with every single event occuring as the direct result of all the others before it on a massive scale.
Then questions like "why are we here", and "what is our purpose" simple cease to exist. These questions make no sense with such a chain of dominos. We simply are here, we dont have purpose. We simply are.
The only question that remains though, is how did this chain of dominos begin? If some big bang happened, was there anything before it? There must be, right? If there was some grand orchestrator of history, a god, what is this god's history? What chain of dominos led to him?
So...im agnostic because I dont know. I believe in "god", but not in the religious sense. I believe in some event somewhere down the line that started this universe in motion and whether that be a collision of matter and antimatter or some divine plan I couldnt say. But that event, whether the result of inanimate or animate objects, is called God to me.
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